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Arid Land Geography ›› 2025, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (8): 1445-1456.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2025.150

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Synergistic evolution of new quality productivity and new urbanization in China’s provinces

GAO Shuai(), ZHANG Wuwei()   

  1. School of Economics and Management, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an 271018, Shandong, China
  • Received:2025-03-19 Revised:2025-05-08 Online:2025-08-25 Published:2025-08-21
  • Contact: ZHANG Wuwei E-mail:19860915703@163.com;zhangwuwei315@163.com

Abstract:

This study aims to explore the mechanism of co-evolution between new quality productivity and new urbanization and alleviate the contradictions between them to contribute to achieving Chinese-style modernization. For this purpose, this study considers 31 provinces (including municipalities and autonomous regions) in China as research objects, constructing a theoretical framework for the co-evolution of “new quality productivity-new urbanization”, and uses the CRITIC weight analysis method and the Haken co-evolution model to measure new quality productivity and new urbanization levels and analyze their co-evolution mechanisms. The following results are obtained: (1) During the observation period, new urbanization and new quality productivity levels significantly improved, and the characteristics of spatial differentiation have become more obvious, presenting a regional development trend of “the east is leading, the middle is catching up, and the west is lagging behind”. (2) New quality productivity plays a dominant role in the dual-new complex system and is the core variable driving the system’s orderly evolution. Meanwhile, there are positive feedback mechanisms within and between the systems, and the cumulative and self-enhancing nature of the internal elements are key driving forces for the formation of positive feedback mechanisms. (3) The co-evolution of the dual-new system has undergone two stages: Rapid advancement (2014—2020) and stable operations (2020—2023). Spatially, it continues to show a distribution feature of “strong in the east and weak in the west”. Cultivating new quality productivity and building new urbanization in a way that is tailored to the local conditions, optimizing the co-evolution mechanism of the dual-new system, and continuously injecting new elements into the system are key paths toward achieving upward evolution. The findings provide a reference for achieving coordinated development of new quality productivity and new urbanization, resolving the contradictions between economic efficiency and social equity, and achieving Chinese-style modernization.

Key words: new quality productivity, new urbanization, co-evolution, Haken model